Wynwood Arts District

The Victoria and Albert Museum—arguably the world’s preeminent design institution—will be displaying one of those 2004 Juicy Couture velour tracksuits with the rhinestones on the butt. No, this isn’t an exhibition focused on atrocities—it’s about underwear through the ages. [Paper]

Good news out of the Miami gallery diaspora—many of the artists and gallerists fleeing gentrification in Wynwood have decided to buy their own real estate in Little Haiti, hopefully avoiding a repeat of the rent inflation and displacement of the last decade. [The New York Times]

“I too want a majority of Democrats in the House of Representatives, but not people who use others hardships as their stepping stones,” philanthropist and art collector Blake Byrne on why he will no longer be funding Democratic politicians who voted for Orwellian restrictions on Syrian refugees. [Los Angeles Times]

Here’s some timely advice ahead of the art fairs: “7 Art Shipping Nightmares and How Best to Avoid Them” [artnet News]

Moshe Safdie is so great. Here’s a video of the architect/urbanist giving a tour of his retrospective at the National Academy Museum in New York City. [Blouin Artinfo]

Andrea K. Scott reviews Rachel Rose’s space-gazing video “Everything and More” at the Whitney. This is a great review—I haven’t seen the piece yet, but now feel like I have and have already fallen in love with it. [The New Yorker]

A boilerplate pro-developer response to the Brooklyn Real Estate Summit at the Brooklyn Museum. According to the editors over at Crain’s the city is becoming more and more lovely thanks to developers. They also seem to think the protesters were demanding that all building of buildings stop. Huh? [Crain’s]

Art Miami runs through Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012, in the Wynwood Arts District, so you all best check out the fair. Now in it’s twenty-third year—an anchor art fair for the city of Miami—the fair, this year will debut CONTEXT Art Miami, it’s new sister art fair, designed to showcase the work of emerging artists. Naturally we’re interested.